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Bible History Commentary: Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Excellent tool for teachers—elementary, Sunday school, vacation Bible school, Bible class—and students. Franzmann clarifies historical accounts, explains difficult passages, offers essential background information, warns about misapplications of the biblical narrative, and reminds readers of the gospel. Contains maps, illustrated charts and tables, a Hebrew calendar, indexes of proper names and...

God used a science which the Egyptians had developed and refined in the interest of their pagan belief, so that the bodies of Jacob and Joseph could be transported to Canaan. And so they, though dead, could give testimony to their faith that Canaan was the sure inheritance of their descendants. Such is God’s wondrous providence.8 By conscientiously carrying out their father’s wish regarding his burial, Joseph and the other sons of Jacob showed that they shared their father’s faith; that their hopes
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